DAMASCUS, April 2 (AFP) - Israel has launched air raids on outposts in Syria’s Homs province, wounding at least five soldiers, according to the Syrian defence ministry.

The raids early on Sunday were the third in recent days and came only a day after another attack on Friday that killed an officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Israel launched “an aerial aggression from the direction of northwest Beirut targeting some outposts in Homs city and its countryside at 00:35 am” (21:35 GMT), the Syrian defence ministry said in a statement on state media.

Syrian air defenses intercepted the missiles and shot down some of them, it said.

A Syrian military source said on state media that the strikes caused some material damage with five military personnel injured.

The Israeli military declined to comment on the report.